Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
would authorize the use of off-highway vehicles in certain areas of the Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
would amend Title 54, U.S. Code, to provide that state law shall apply to the use of motor vehicles on roads within a system unit.
would ensure access to certain public land.
would improve tribal self-governance by streamlining appraisals for on-reservation trust land acquisitions by Indian tribes with self-governance realty programs.
would amend Title 49, U.S. Code, to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a confidential, voluntary information-sharing system to encourage the sharing of pipeline safety data and information in a nonpunitive context in order to improve the safety of pipeline facilities.
would amend Title 49, U.S. Code, to enhance the safety of pipeline transportation.
would accelerate the competitiveness of the United States in marine energy technologies.
would reauthorize the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act to promote the protection of the resources of the Northwest Straits.
would provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian Reservation that were guaranteed to the community under a treaty signed in 1854.
would amend the FWPCA to consider the use of resource preservation techniques in certain programs.